chunks of code

Originally published on Gandalf’s official blog, but I wanted to hare it here to reach as many developers as much as possible.

At BuyCoins, we use the Interactor gem for business logic. It works like this:

With a real world example

If you’re an experienced (web) developer like I am, the words in the title make complete sense to you and are pretty basic.

If you’re using react-redux then you should be familiar with the code below.

I decided to write a series of posts that show how I do certain things with graphql-ruby in server side Rails applications.

I recently started doing React + Redux development and Redux took some getting used to. So I decided to write this to make it a bit easier…

If you’re using Postgres 9.4+ in your Rails application, you get to create columns in the jsonb type, which lets you store non-relational…

I’m working on a super-top-secret-but-not-really-maybe-cryptocurrency-related web product and I eventually ended up needing two back-end…

Update: You can see the class we end up writing, but in Java here.

This is going to be a relatively short post. It’s something I just did and felt like sharing in the moment.

Generally, my experience with Twitter for Mac hasn’t been good. It’s probably much better these days, but my issues with it are:

It’s hard to keep up in the world of software development, especially these days. There’s always some new framework, library, preprocessor…

I did some work with Alessandro Desantis recently and he introduced me into a very different, but also very reasonable way of making JSON…

As a software developer, especially one with little experience, it’s very easy to get confused about what you should do and what you…

So you use some REST API that responds with JSON with a ton of nested objects and arrays, an example of this is the Google Maps Direction…

It took me a long long time to finally decided to write tests. I’ll probably write about the thought process and why I think you should…

I was working on a very simple Rails API, using devise_token_auth and I need to authorize controller actions based on user roles.

Over the past couple of months, I’ve been SLOWLY building a customizable messaging UI library for Android inspired by…

This is the fourth part in the Building a Voice Controlled Home Automation series. You can find the first part here.

This is the third part in the Building a Voice Controlled Home Automation series. You can find the first part here.

Recently, Ire Aderinokun has been dropping knowledge on how to build a Progressive Web App with push notifications, local storage and all…

In the first part of this series, we went through some of the concepts that Wit.ai introduced in their (relatively) new Bot Engine.

I’ve always wanted to build Jarvis.